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Re: hotplugging ide harddrive



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On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:51:42 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

> On 06/04/07 11:24, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > Any drive, any laptop. I think ACPI supports IDE hotswap.
> 
> Interesting.  I don't plan on getting any arrows in my back, though!
> 
> I'd feel more comfortable hotswapping SATA drives, though, since it 
> uses more SCSI code, and scan-scsi-bus.sh might pick it up.

And so does absolutely everything as soon as libata goes mainstream.
The notion of /dev/hd* will be dead forever. It's already in mainline
kernels, I guess most distributions must turn it off by default...

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Andrew J. Barr
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